THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 214, 16 September 1901, Page 3

THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.

WILL BE FILLED BY VICE-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELDT. By the constitution of 1787 and subsequent amendments the government of the United States is entrusted to three separate authorities—thu executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The first is vested in a President elecled on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November every leap year, for four years, by electors appointed by each separate State. The President, who has an annual salary of 850,000, is Commander-in-Chief of the national forces, and has a veto on all laws passed by Congress, although a Bill may become law in spite o£ his veto, on being afterwards passed by a two-thirds majority of each House of Congress. The administration is conducted under the im-

j mediate authority of the President by eight I Ministers chosen by him, a.itl holding oilice at his pleasure, though confirmed by the ' iSenate. A Vice-l'i\ sident is chosen in the same lna'ner as the President; ho is ex ujlirio President of the Senate, a>>d in case of the death or resignation of the President, he assumes hi.; office for the remainder of the term, and the Senate elects a temporary , Vice-President.

Therefore, under the sad circumstances chronicled to-day, the office of President of the United States devolves upon Colonel Theodore Roosevcldt, who wr ■; elected VicePresident last yepr. |